Joseph C. Hyman, secretary of the Joint Distribution Committee, declared last night that the Jews of Germany are infinitely worse off now than they were when the present situation began in the Reich.
Addressing a mass meeting at the Jewish Community Auditorium for the United Jewish Appeal, Hyman, who is its honorary secretary, said: “At no time since the present Nazi government has come into power, have the Jewish people of Germany felt so hopeless, so uncertain, so despairing.
“To me, the answer is clear and inescapable-to refuse our help to them would be an act of crass desertion and abandonment of our common duty as Jews and of our obligation as human beings.”
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